hello all:
I have finally got round to trying debian on an old p120 for evaluation. Results so far are v.good with the exception of diald, which refuses to connect. Accounts are configured as on my Suse machine so settings should be correct. using other methods is no good either, Gppp will not establish session pppd "dies unexpectedly" Wvdial will not allow me access to the modem, permissions are set to 'no auth' and I believe that anyone should be able to initiate a tcp/ppp connection. but no.
Any ideas?
Ta
Danny
I'd highly recommend using WVDial, which is a more intelligent dialer. You only need to plonk in your username, password and the ISP telephone number and it'll work out the rest. I've used it very successfully for a customer who has a dial-up Linux mail and web proxy server.
Regards,
Martyn
----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Thorp" danny@thorp.fsworld.co.uk To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:56 PM Subject: [Alug] diald
hello all:
I have finally got round to trying debian on an old p120 for evaluation. Results so far are v.good with the exception of diald, which refuses to connect. Accounts are configured as on my Suse machine so settings should be correct. using other methods is no good either, Gppp will not establish session pppd "dies unexpectedly" Wvdial will not allow me access to the modem, permissions are set to 'no auth' and I believe that anyone should be able to initiate a tcp/ppp connection. but no.
Any ideas?
Ta
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Martyn Drake wrote:
I'd highly recommend using WVDial, which is a more intelligent dialer. You only need to plonk in your username, password and the ISP telephone number and it'll work out the rest. I've used it very successfully for a customer who has a dial-up Linux mail and web proxy server.
Regards,
Martyn
Dumb question time, but does wvdial now do d-o-d?
Cheers, Laurie.
Yes. It can run as a daemon and in order to get my Linux-unfriendly customer to connect their server to the Internet, they just do a ping to an external IP address and it connects them.
Regards,
Martyn
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Brown" laurie@brownowl.com To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [Alug] diald
Martyn Drake wrote:
I'd highly recommend using WVDial, which is a more intelligent dialer.
You
only need to plonk in your username, password and the ISP telephone
number
and it'll work out the rest. I've used it very successfully for a
customer
who has a dial-up Linux mail and web proxy server.
Regards,
MartynDumb question time, but does wvdial now do d-o-d?
Cheers, Laurie.
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